Published: February 8, 2025
The collaboration between humans and sea beasts, two different races, may seem surprising and awkward, but it also carries a sense of inevitability.
As the saying goes, life will find its own way.
Humans, in pursuit of benefits, have always racked their brains, whether in peacetime for money and power, or in the apocalypse for Evolution Potions and weaponry.
The same applies to mutated life forms; the truth that "birds die for food" is universally valid.
Under the laws of survival, nothing is impossible.
As mutated life forms grow stronger and reach the top of the food chain, equal in status to humans, when they develop their own intelligence, they have essentially transcended mere "beast" status. The differences between them and humans have shifted to physical aspects, while their wisdom is gradually converging.
For many evolvers, this collaboration might seem sudden and incredulous, but for Ye Zhongming, who lived for ten years in his previous life, it is not strange at all.
From what he knows, in several famous battles during the apocalypse, humans and mutated life forms have collaborated to challenge greater adversaries, or humans and mutated life forms have united to attack human camps. Such events have occurred and caused great shock.
Later, the survivors gradually adapted to this situation; since they could go to any lengths for gains, what difference does it make to unite with mutated life forms?
Psychologically, Ye Zhongming does not reject this collaboration, as long as it does not touch his bottom line.
Moreover, treasures abound in the sea, a saying that was very popular among the survivors in his previous life. With such a good opportunity now, how could he let it slip away easily?
Of course, agreeing to collaborate does not mean Ye Zhongming has let down his guard against the upper dragon. Just looking at the conditions it presented reveals that, for its own strength, this eighth-level mutated life form does not value the lives of its subordinates at all, treating even the seventh-level beings as mere bargaining chips.
How would Ye Zhongming clear the obstacles in turning the wheel? It was simply a matter of letting the sea beasts kill those human evolvers who stood between him and Cloud Summit Villa.
How to kill? Only by sending out stronger sea beasts to challenge and overcome these survivors, and then... let the people from Cloud Summit do the killing.
It can be said that the upper dragon is using the lives of its subordinates in exchange for what it desires.
Cruel, right? But this is the apocalypse; this is the world of mutated life forms.
It is just that when such things happen to them, the moral bottom line that humans are accustomed to is absent. However, as the apocalypse deepens, such occurrences will also happen among humans, and they will become increasingly common.
Civilization will be cut down.
Or rather, it will be replaced by another form of "bloody civilization."
Whether willingly or unwillingly.
After confirming the collaboration, Ye Zhongming no longer hesitated and chose ten people from Cloud Summit Villa to fight.
This was exactly what the people of Ying City and the heavenly phenomenon war department wanted.
They had indeed agreed to cooperate with Cloud Summit, but the extremely high mortality rate would deter anyone. Now that Cloud Summit had chosen to enter, it was the best outcome.
“Are you not letting me participate?”
Other subordinate Guangyao did not want them to go to their deaths, but he was quite confident in his own strength. Furthermore, some rewards on the fifth-level wheel made Guangyao incredibly tempted, so he planned to join the fight.
Other forces in the China Zone were wary of the seven-star evolvers from Cloud Summit Villa and their purple gear, but the heavenly phenomenon war department did not have this issue, as they were in a cooperative relationship.
However, Ye Zhongming's obstruction made Guangyao's expression and tone quite poor. It seemed to him that Ye Zhongming was removing the bridge after crossing it, possibly hoarding everything for himself.